Improvement in percussion-primers



M. BAOKES. Percussion-Primer.

No. 221,015. Patented Oct. 28, 1879.

proportion of these UNITED, S A ES PATENT O FIGE.

MICHAEL BAOKES,, oF WALLINGFOBD, CONNECTICUT. -I. -i.

||v| PROVEMENT IN PERCUSSION-Pm M ERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,015, dated October 28, 1879; application filed September 19, 1879. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL BAoKEs, of VVallingford, in the county of New Haven and Stateof Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Percussion-Primers and' I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawlngs and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in 1 r Figure 1-, a plan view; Fig. 2,.a longitudinal central section, Fig. 3 illustratingthe use of the invention.

This invention relates to an improvementin that class of percussion-primers, or'what are commonly called paper percussion-caps, which are made by introducing a percussionwafer between two thicknesses of paper, the two thicknesses extending beyond the edge of the wafer, and being there secured together by v paste or othersnitable adhesive material. In some cases these primers are cut in the form of disks from the paper, with the wafer in the center. In others they are made in strips ofequal width,'to be torn one from the other. A large primers are used in toy pistols. Ifmade singly they are put in small boxes, and the child loses many in. attempting.

to move them singly from the box; and if in strips of. equal width, asusu'ally made, hedestroys many in attempting to separate them.

The object of this invention is to overcome these difliculties; and it consists in producing the primers in a succession of connected disks,

the connection being slight,and so as to leave a notch ateach side between adjacentprimers, and as more fully hereinafter described.

7 The wafers or pellets a are of the usual form, and are placed-onstrips or sheets of 'paper at substantially equal distances from each other,

and another strip pasted upon the first: or they may be made in sheets, 1) representingthe lower sheet, and'd the upper sheet. Then by suitable dies they are cut into strips with scallop-shaped edges, as seen in Fig.1, and so as to fornr a notch,-e, at each side between. adjacent disks, and leave a small connection, f, at the center. These are best done by making the'cnt concentricv to each of the pellets, as shown.

By this construction the primers are in the '3 best form possible, and are easilydetach ed from each other without liability of, loss. Again, the strip is useful as a means of introducing the primer to its seat on the pistol. This sea-t is usually a cavity corresponding substantially;

to the-size of the primer, as A, Fig. 3. At one side of the wall of this ca vity made,

topass into' the said notch. Therefore, to introduce a primer, it is only. necessary to place the end into the cavityA, with t-he connection f in the notch h, and pull. the strip.

tion will' occur between" the first and second primer at the notch h, the wall of the cavity serving to hold against the pull. I claim A series of primers consisting of-a percus'v sion-pellet secured between two strips of paper, and the said'strips cut to form a notch at each side between adjacent pellets, substan tially as described. 1 v

- p I MICHAEL BAGKES. Witnesses: Y r

JOHN .E. EARL'E,

J cs. 0. EARLE.

a notch, h, is' so as to allow the connecting-point f I Separa- 

